In message <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, P Witte <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes
>Malcolm Cadman writes: > >> Can anyone help me with using a portable Zip Drive as a source, running >> QPC, and being attached to 2 different PC's ( not at the same time ) ? >> >> On the first computer it is seen as a source - win2_ - on the second >> computer it is seen as a source - win4_ >> >> The software - like QDT and Launchpad - is configured to recognise the >> win drive source as - win2_ >> >> Which means when the source is seen as - win4_ - this is not correct. >> >> Also, rather than have one very long boot file to load everything, I >> have a number of small boot files that load one after the other, >> depending on what configuration I am using. >> >> Is there an easy way to preserve the value the physical source - in this >> case either as win2_ or win4_ across the different boot files ? >> >> Can DEV_USE do this ? >> >> Or an Environment variable ? >> >> At present my initial, short, boot file just gets input from the user as >> to which computer is being used, which sets "windrive$" to either be - >> win2_ or win4_ >> >> However, the value is not being held when the next boot file is loaded >> with an LRUN. >Ive made a QPC2 system to run off a USB memory stick. This should be >pretty much the same for a zip disk, but I'm not sure.. Thanks, Per. We are a clever lot with the things that we do :-) ..... as you say a Zip drive is just another device, just like a USB. So, your example below is valid. However, I am using 2 older PC's here, with WIN95, that do not have built in USB ports - although they could still take a PCI Card for that purpose - hence the use of portable Zip Drive. One of the PC's also has a resident SqQuest drive - so that I can copy between the 2 types of Removeable hard drive disks.. <Clip> >Once QPC2 is running you can use the SBasic function QPC_NETNAME$ to >find out which machine youre running under (provided youve set this >under Windows first). I have different directories for the different >platforms SMSQ/E runs under, containing the different >platform-specific configuration files such as printer drivers, >FileInfo2_cfg, MenuConf_inf, etc. On my QPC2 systems I use the net >name to tell them apart. Umm ... can you explain more about how to set up a net name ? I've not used that feature. That is interesting. Going back to what I said earlier ... having more that one boot file, one loading another, using LRUN, seems to clear the BASIC memory area of a "windrive$" variable that I have just obtained from user input. I was hoping for a way of preserving that value, so that the next boot file could then use the variable. -- Malcolm Cadman _______________________________________________ QL-Users Mailing List http://www.q-v-d.demon.co.uk/smsqe.htm
